A program was created by some of the faculty members at MIT that helps every student around the world eventually have a laptop, the One Laptop Per Child program. That is every child around the world. Of course, the laptops these children receive are not like the laptop I have in my room. These laptops are what they call a $100 laptop. Now, the laptop isn't exactly $100 dollars, but it is a lot cheaper the most laptops out there, and it can do a lot of stuff.
Now children in under-developed countries can be training with technologies that we will be having for future generations. Rwanda, Haiti, Uruguay, and Afghanistan are just some of the under-developed countries that have started using this program. The laptops are not made open to the public, except around Christmas time in 2007 when they had a give 1 get 1 program. If you buy a laptop, one would go to a child in a foreign country.
www.laptop.org
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